My Best Dressed at the 2017 Golden Globes Is …

Bring out the flames emoji, because the fashion at tonight’s Golden Globes was on fire!

Seriously, these are the best-dressed awards-show attendees that I’ve seen in years. There were so many contenders for my coveted Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award that I’ve got to hand out a slew of honorary awards before I get to the big winner.

First up, much love goes out to singer/actress Janelle Monáe for wearing an Armani Privé mullet dress — mullets being one of my favorite looks for both hemlines and hair.

The women who went for dark gowns did it right, with deep necklines. The little details on black or almost-black gowns are often lost in red carpet pictures, so you might as well go for the plunge like Kristen Bell, in her Jenny Packham gown. I love a squared-off neckline. It gives me medieval vibes.

A few of my jewelry-industry colleagues bemoaned the lack of necklaces with the plunging numbers, but if you’ve got a few acres of beautiful skin to show off, why not just show it off? (Unless, of course, you’re a jewelry designer. Then you load that décolletage with all the chains you can get your hands on.)

Olivia Culpo gets my Too-Much-Is-Never-Enough honorable mention for this ravishing Zuhair Murad dress. (I’ve seen a few of those criss-cross bodices lately, and this is the first one that’s looked elegant.)

Honestly, I could go on! But I’ll get to my official runner-up. As I’ve said before, my prestigious Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award requires more than a beautiful dress. It calls for an eye-catching look. You must dare to be different! And that’s what I loved about Lily Collins in dusty-rose Zuhair Murad Couture. The lacy texture and the full skirt combined with her pale skin, braided updo, and red lips was almost costume-y. YASSS!

They were from multiple designers, too! It’s so refreshing to see someone who hasn’t signed an iron-clad contract with a single, already-famous jewelry house. The plethora of rings — and lack of any other jewelry at all — was shocking to some people, but not to me. After all, take away a bunch of diamonds and that’s what I would call my working jewelry (to borrow a line from Zsa Zsa Gabor).

It’s not only the look of the rings that appealed to me, but the look on Ross’s face as she posed in the rings. The phrase that came to mind is the title of a book that Susan Fales-Hill wrote about her mother: “Always Wear Joy.

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

MEET WENDY BRANDES

Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.